Amnesty International has accused the Cameroon military of war crimes including beating, drowning and killing of Boko Haram suspects. A statement from Isa Sanusi of Amnesty International on Thursday said its report revealed that detainees in Cameroon are subjected to severe beatings, agonising stress positions and drownings, with some tortured to death Amnesty accuse Cameroon…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wednesday said there is no evidence that 97 Nigerians have been killed by Cameroonian Gendarmes. Rather, the ministry said that the 97 figure being bandied “was also an accumulation of figure of all the Nigerians that have lost their lives in previous incidents in the Bakassi area since 2008.” This…
A Malian fisherman who found the body of the late Bishop of Bafia, Jean-Marie Bénoit Bala, has been rewarded with FCFA 2 million ($3,545) by the Cameroonian government. 27-year-old Ali Aoudi Dienta who found the body two days after the bishop went missing in the Sanaga river was handed cash by the Governor of the…
Peter Henry Barlerin, of Colorado, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Cameroon. Organization Department of State Latest Action 07/19/2017 – Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Date Received…
Cameroonian anglophone newspaper journalist Atia Tilarious Azohnwi has been charged with promotion of terrorism after his arrest in February. He was charged by a military tribunal in the capital Yaounde on Friday, July 14, 2017, local media reported. According to local media, he was arrested on February 9 upon a tip-off that he was in…
Two former French directors general of the International Bank of Cameroon for Savings and Credit (BICEC) have been summoned to appear before the Wouri District Court in Douala on Friday, for alleged embezzlement of funds estimated at “several billion CFA francs,” judicial sources said on Thursday. Pascal Rebillard, the Director General of BICEC from 2008…
Fako Division has been stripped of its right to host the next Elective General Assembly of the Southwest Chiefs’ Conference, SWEEC. The Division will also lose its right to produce the next SWECC President. The decision to withdraw the hosting right from Fako Division was taken during an enlarged executive meeting of the six Divisions…
President Paul Biya has admonished officials of his Government against buying ostentatious vehicles that afflict a huge financial burden on the State. This is one of the recommendations the President made in a recent circular in which he gave orientations on the 2018 draft budget. The President’s warning is directed at the fraternity of a…
Traditional rulers of the Southwest Region, under the umbrella of the Southwest Chiefs’ Conference, SWECC, have decried the marginalisation of Anglophone students seeking admission into the University of Buea, UB. According to them, Francophone students are given easy access to study in UB than their Anglophone counterparts. The custodians of tradition urged Government and officials…
Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai, Tuesday, July 16, handed over the files of a decade long unresolved Limbe Paramount Chieftaincy Crisis to the new Fako SDO, Emmanuel Engamba Ledoux. Bernard Okalia, today Governor of the Southwest Region, was in July, 2007, the then SDO of Fako when the late Paramount Chief of Limbe, HRH Chief Ferguson…
